More like science fiction
Another day, another hysterical climate piece from your publicly funded national broadcaster. This time, researchers claim that when wet bulb temperatures (dew point, in other words) reach 35 degrees, it will become “uncomfortable” for humans. They have used climate models to predict when this will occur, and we all know how reliable and accurate they are. The ABC uncritically publishes it all in its science pages, under the headline “Warmer planet to stress humans: study”:
Professor Steven Sherwood of University of New South Wales and Associate Professor Matthew Huber of Purdue University in Illinois, used climate models to predict where and when temperatures will increase to uncomfortable levels.
They found a global temperature increase of 7°C above pre-industrial levels would push temperatures in some regions above 35°C for extended periods, resulting in heat stress across the whole population.
Sherwood says while heat-related deaths among the elderly and young already occur, global warming will result in more of the population suffering.
“What we’re talking about here is something a bit different – these limits apply to a healthy person,” he says.
But the final paragraphs tell the real story:
Sherwood says a 7°C increase isn’t likely to happen until next century, but he says it’s important to understand the impact should it occur.
“When you’re planning sensibly for anything you plan for the worst case scenario,” he says. [In other words, take the precautionary principle to its logical conclusion – Ed]
“We’re saying this is the worst scenario, we’re not saying it’s going to happen soon, but to ignore it seems foolhardy.”
The researchers conclude further warming would have a more drastic impact.
“If warmings of 10°C were really to occur in [the] next three centuries, the area of land likely rendered uninhabitable by heat stress would dwarf that affects by rising sea level,” they write.
The average global temperature has increased by 0.8°C since pre-industrial times. Some scientists and environmental groups are pushing for limits on human-produced greenhouse gas emissions to limit the increase to no more than 2°C.
In other words, this is a worst-case, precautionary-principle-gone-mad study, which somehow makes it onto the ABC as mainstream science.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
As the English say in their polite way… “What a load of tosh!”
And tonight on the ABC we had the Minister for Climate Disasters, Penny ‘Wrong’ waltzing around the Torres Strait Is. where the immanently rising seas need only rise 0.4 of a metre (yeah,, that’ll happen in a week or two) to possible inundate some homes so the locals are demanding huge handouts now to water-proof the islands! I’ll give you one guess where that money will end up!